president obama spokes with egypt's president mohamed morsi to work together with the region. tensions has increased since the attacks with egypt recalling its ambassador to israel in protests. richard haass also in an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council last night. sift through this for us, how big is this in the middle east right now? >> well, it's big for lots of reasons. one is you have the largest military slash between the military and hamas in four years. it's not going to stop. it doesn't matter in the middle east exactly why things begin over the last few months. there's been rocket are attacks, now retaliation, it just happens. second of all, it's not happening in the absence of anything political. there's no dialogue whatsoever going on between israelis and palestinians. and ultimately, this can't substitute for that. thirdly, you saw the egyptians withdrew their ambassador. since 1967, not long after that, when anwar sadat went to jerusalem, the israeli relationship has been good. what this shows we can no longer take that for granted. now you have the p